A woman who poisoned 11 husbands to death over a 22-year period is facing execution in Iran.
Kolsum Akbari, 56, systematically married elderly men before murdering them with diabetes drugs and industrial alcohol to inherit their property and dowries.
The killings went undetected for more than two decades because victims appeared to die of natural causes due to their advanced age and existing health conditions.
Akbari confessed to the killings and she is awaiting sentencing, with victims’ family members calling for her execution .
The killings began in 2000 and continued until 2023, when the death of her final victim, 82-year-old Gholamreza Babaei, led to her arrest.
Babaei’s son became suspicious after a family friend revealed his own father had previously been married to a woman